Current goal is to clear the rest of the Touhou games on lunatic. So far I just like the Touhou style of gameplay as a personal preference. I've heard people complain about the bullets in Touhou games being too slow, but large numbers of slow bullets, rather than smaller numbers of faster bullets, is exactly what I like about Touhou. Youmu's first spell in PCB, Hell God Sword, for example, is a dense clusterfuck of bullets that you dodge in slow motion, and it's one of my favourite bullet patterns of all time. If I can find other shmups that I enjoy as much or more than Touhou in the future, I will play them though.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Lunatic ALL - Terrible at this game. Idk why but I find it hard to set aside time to play this.Perfect Cherry Blossom Lunatic No-bombs ALL. 3 missImperishable Night Lunatic No-bombs ALL A-Route 6 missMountain of Faith Lunatic No-bombs ALL 2 missSubterranean Animism Lunatic No-bombs ALL 4 miss Undefined Fantastic Object Lunatic No-bombs ALL 7 missTen Desires Lunatic No-bombs No-Trance ALL 3 missDouble Dealing Character Lunatic No-bombs ALL 8 missEspRaDe ALL - Could have been a cool game, would try to NMNB it if the hitboxes were not so lame.Gemini Wing ALL - Trap15 could pick a game I enjoyed. Impressive.EspGaluda ALL - Boring game. Took about 3 credits to beat.EspGaluda 2 ＡＬＬ - Fun game. Some day, I want to see a No-bombs No-Kakusei clear of it. I might be able but extends is a problem.Mushihimesama Futari Maniac ALL - Nothing fancy. Tickled with the idea of No-bomb 1cc but Larsa's final phase put it to rest.Akai Katana Shin ALL - Great music and graphics, game leaves a lot to be desired.Death Smiles ALL with 4x Lv3 No Canyon - Fun game with awesome graphics and music. Would play more but controls are cumbersome on my setup.Dodonpachi Saidaioujou A-S ALL - Not sure what to feel about this one.Exceed 3rd Black Package Normal ALL (Blind) and Hard ALL with Autobombs - Sorta-cool, doubt I'll ever play it again.Dodonpachi 2-6 - C-S makes reaching far an easy deal but beating the rest from there will take some doing.Dodonpachi Daioujou Black Label 2-5 - I don't really like this game all that much, stupid TLBKetsui 2-4 Omote - Fun game, definitely hoping to get back to this.Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu 1.5 2-5 Omote - Reached 2-5 first time ever looping it. Autobombs makes things easy. Will probably want to finish this eventually.Strikers 99 2-2 - First Psikyo 1-ALLGunbird 2 1-ALL (terminated credit after clearing first loop) - 1MNB first loop as my first 1-ALL. Pretty nice. Wanted NMNB though ;_;Dragon Blaze - 2-1 Lazy bomb-spam 1-all, didn't even bother learning stage 7 at that point.

Not really a very impressive list. Well, I have only played few easy games. I find it more fun to play stuff out of my league.

I used to have all these written down on a piece of paper but when I moved around last November that piece of paper went AWOL , so there might be one or two missing off this list but I think it's basically right.

Every game was played on the default difficulty, unless it starts on the easy setting in which case I changed it to Normal or Hard (sometimes in addition to beating the game on Easy; only exception are a few arcade shooters which are universally played on default settings (such as Star Force)).

Here's what I can remember clearing, I'll try to keep this updated and maybe add scores if there are any I'm proud of. Highest difficulty cleared is listed for games with multiple difficulty levels or multiple loops.

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